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...over a decade, Harvard has been trying to relinquish its ownership of 9.6 acres of land in the Boston neighborhood of Mission Hill. Now, after years spent working to make the sale viable, the final stages of the transfer are finally near completion...
...went to Depaul for 2 years but I had to transfer as a sophomore becasue Harvard didn't accept my piano credits," Bennett quipped...
...court rightly recognized that Napster, just like a VCR, is capable of substantial non-infringing uses, such as the exchange of songs that are not copyrighted--for example, files released by artists hoping to make a name for themselves. Yet it also required that Napster act to prevent the transfer of copyrighted music once notified by the copyright owners. Given that there is no easy way for a computer to tell whether a piece of music is copyrighted or not--especially when two songs have the same title--Napster may, depending on the wording of the final injunction, be forced...
Ironically, this group of evangelical guerillas fighting in the name of "information freedom" by programming new peer-to-peer file transfer applications, and fomenting anger against intellectual property as an institution are preventing the Internet from becoming a haven for just the kind of artists they wish to free from the current tyrannous, bourgeois-dominated market. These revolutionaries, like so many radicals in the past, have forgotten that their enemy is the recording industry bureaucracy and its market power, not the artists themselves...
...with cloning animals leaves him vexed by all this talk of human cloning. In three years of work on the Missyplicity project, using hundreds upon hundreds of canine eggs, the A&M team has produced only a dozen or so embryos carrying Missy's DNA. None have survived the transfer to a surrogate mom. The wastage of eggs and the many spontaneously aborted fetuses may be acceptable when you're dealing with cats or bulls, he argues, but not with humans. "Cloning is incredibly inefficient, and also dangerous," he says...